Derrick crane

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	See Derrick.
	a combination of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally.

See also: Crane, Derrick

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A 20-ton derrick crane with a special jib 115ft long picked up sections of steelwork for the bridge from railway wagons on the riverside.

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Some of those were sizable, such as extending the derrick crane atop the stand by 50 feet, repositioning the 1.